When I heard that MS had an interest in Facebook I promptly attempted to delete my account. There is no way to do it. But I can deactivate it and that is what I did. Let me say that I will go out of my way to avoid using anything that Steve Ballmer has his fat chubby little hands into. If there are enough MS haters around this will give Facebook a good kick in the pants. If not I at least have the satisfaction that I am not part of the problem.
A billion installations of Windows! OMG what a terrifiying mess to clean up. The loss of productivityt will be unimaginable. It will set us back to the stone age. It's time for the Linux and Mac faithful to come forth with some hopeful statistics. Perhaps there are more than a billion linux installs if you count embedded Linux. Smartphones running Linux should help that counter.
The Gates foundation is channeling the profits from its twice-convicted and unpunished monopoly. Microsoft has done more to stifle innovation and has terribly damaged America's technological lead by stifling innovation though unethical business practices, such as pre-annmouncing vaporware merely to prevent competitive products from being developed.
The gates foundation is handing out blood money. And according to the parent article, its investment practices into polluting companies amplifies the damage.
If people want clean white money they should get it from foundations like the Dave and Lucille Packard foundation. That is a true white money source. Dave Packard was a genius, who recognized that the greatest danger facing the earth is overpopulation. Overpopulation is the true root cause of much evil and disease and war and poverty.
Gates want to cure aids, which is a good idea of course, but until we solve the overpopulation problem, aids is not going away.
As they say, the fruit does not fall far from the tree.
From TFA:
"Volume Activation 2.0, which uses a new set of technologies to activate and validate Vista..."
More Microsoft market speak. It writes some software that does something proprietary and it's called a "set of technologies." WTF it's just programs built for one reason only - to protect a monopoly market position.
Hey Ballmer! Technology != code
Don't people learn from history? IBM tried to lock people into their computers. Now Microsoft is there with windows and trying the same shzt again with gaming?
Hello! Wake up people! Open is good. Closed and proprietary is bad.
In my case I don't want a lock-in solution that requires me to buy a proprietary gaming box with a proprietary online gaming solution behind it. I want it open. I want it to run on my Mac or on Linux, and I want choices in my online gaming solution provider.
And I sure as shzt won't buy any solution from Microsoft because of their business ethics, and it sure disappoints me that so many folks don't seem to care about that.
Wait! This is the same country that voted Dubya in for a second term. I see. Ethics does not matter. Got it!
Apple supports Blu-Ray. Ergo I don't give a flying leap that BillGatusOfBorg, MonkeyMan, and their band of pirates prefers.
Linux users won't give a damn either. Indeed, if this goes right, Linux will support BOTH high definition DVD standards and Vista can suck gas for all I care. This may well be the turning point for Linux desktop multimedia.
Ironic too that Sony, which recently embarrassed itself with that root-kit DRM stunt a while back, is the enemy of my enemy - er, my friend?
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When I heard that MS had an interest in Facebook I promptly attempted to delete my account. There is no way to do it. But I can deactivate it and that is what I did. Let me say that I will go out of my way to avoid using anything that Steve Ballmer has his fat chubby little hands into. If there are enough MS haters around this will give Facebook a good kick in the pants. If not I at least have the satisfaction that I am not part of the problem.
A billion installations of Windows! OMG what a terrifiying mess to clean up. The loss of productivityt will be unimaginable. It will set us back to the stone age. It's time for the Linux and Mac faithful to come forth with some hopeful statistics. Perhaps there are more than a billion linux installs if you count embedded Linux. Smartphones running Linux should help that counter.
The Gates foundation is channeling the profits from its twice-convicted and unpunished monopoly. Microsoft has done more to stifle innovation and has terribly damaged America's technological lead by stifling innovation though unethical business practices, such as pre-annmouncing vaporware merely to prevent competitive products from being developed. The gates foundation is handing out blood money. And according to the parent article, its investment practices into polluting companies amplifies the damage. If people want clean white money they should get it from foundations like the Dave and Lucille Packard foundation. That is a true white money source. Dave Packard was a genius, who recognized that the greatest danger facing the earth is overpopulation. Overpopulation is the true root cause of much evil and disease and war and poverty. Gates want to cure aids, which is a good idea of course, but until we solve the overpopulation problem, aids is not going away. As they say, the fruit does not fall far from the tree.
From TFA: "Volume Activation 2.0, which uses a new set of technologies to activate and validate Vista ..."
More Microsoft market speak. It writes some software that does something proprietary and it's called a "set of technologies." WTF it's just programs built for one reason only - to protect a monopoly market position.
Hey Ballmer! Technology != code
Don't people learn from history? IBM tried to lock people into their computers. Now Microsoft is there with windows and trying the same shzt again with gaming?
Hello! Wake up people! Open is good. Closed and proprietary is bad.
In my case I don't want a lock-in solution that requires me to buy a proprietary gaming box with a proprietary online gaming solution behind it. I want it open. I want it to run on my Mac or on Linux, and I want choices in my online gaming solution provider.
And I sure as shzt won't buy any solution from Microsoft because of their business ethics, and it sure disappoints me that so many folks don't seem to care about that.
Wait! This is the same country that voted Dubya in for a second term. I see. Ethics does not matter. Got it!
Apple supports Blu-Ray. Ergo I don't give a flying leap that BillGatusOfBorg, MonkeyMan, and their band of pirates prefers. Linux users won't give a damn either. Indeed, if this goes right, Linux will support BOTH high definition DVD standards and Vista can suck gas for all I care. This may well be the turning point for Linux desktop multimedia. Ironic too that Sony, which recently embarrassed itself with that root-kit DRM stunt a while back, is the enemy of my enemy - er, my friend?